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The Óbuda Synagogue in Budapest is the oldest functioning synagogue in Hungary. The building was inaugurated in 1821. Its restrained, neoclassical aesthetic was consistent with popular architectural…
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Andreas Landesherr
Places:
Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821
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People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street is one of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known works. In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of a trend in European art that was moving away from…
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Friedrich Friedländer
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1859
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The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This one, made in Bucharest, Romania…
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Artist Unknown
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Bucharest, Austrian Empire (Bucharest, Romania)
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1859
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Cecilie Freiin von Eskeles (1760–1836) was noted for her salon, which attracted leading musical, literary, and intellectual figures. Daughter of the court Jew Daniel Itzig, she brought the Berlin…
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Friedrich von Amerling
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1832
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In Ashkenazic communities, circumcision benches with two seats were sometimes used from the nineteenth century on, one for the sandek, the godfather on whose lap the baby boy is circumcised, and one…
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Artist Unknown
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Eidlitz, Holy Roman Empire (Údlice, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1805
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This tombstone of a Torah scholar from Sieniawa, Poland includes motifs and symbols often found on Jewish tombstones in Poland, such as a crown and palm trees. Other common symbols on Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
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Sieniawa, Austrian Empire (Sieniawa, Poland)
Date:
1855
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The Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest is the largest synagogue in Europe, and the second largest in the world, capable of accommodating three thousand people. The Moorish- and Byzantine-inspired…
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Ludwig Förster
Places:
Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1854–1859